Adding physicality to gaming One of the things that motion controllers have helped popularize is the fitness gaming category. We’ve seen it on consoles and the PC alike, and it’s a trend that isn’t going away. Just the opposite, there are new products coming out to make gaming even more physical. While at GDC, we…
Take a peek at the first game using Oxide’s Nitrous engine The future of AMD’s Mantle is up in the air since AMD recently told developers to focus on DirectX 12 instead. However, it doesn’t appear as though AMD is ready to completely dismantle its API, which will have a future in Vulkan, the next…
An Epic perspective on VR Epic Games earlier this week announced that it was dropping its subscription fee to license Unreal Engine 4. Now instead of paying $19 per month on top of any applicable royalties, developers can dive in and get access to UE4’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub. They can even…
An Epic perspective on VR Epic Games earlier this week announced that it was dropping its subscription fee to license Unreal Engine 4. Now instead of paying $19 per month on top of any applicable royalties, developers can dive in and get access to UE4’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub. They can even…
Going face to face with a T-Rex What is it like to experience VR’s latest prototype called “Crescent Bay?” How does it feel to have a T-Rex breathe down your neck as you stand in a pile of her unhatched eggs? Does the T-Rex really have a walnut-sized brain? Awesome, scary, and watch Land of…
Top Deal: Calling all early adopters on a budget, are you there? Great, let’s talk 4K. Have you been wanting to upgrade to a 4K monitor but without spending a king’s ransom? Well then, you should spy today’s top deal for an Acer B286HK 28-inch 4K Monitor for $380 with free shipping (normally $400 –…
Does anyone buy CDs or Blu-ray discs anymore? You can stream so much stuff for a few bucks a month that it’s hard to make an argument for physical media these days. Those two mediums have nearly leapfrogged the downloading phase that PC games have been in for a decade, since the dawn of Steam….
Microsoft aims for a unified experience If you’ve heard of Games for Windows Live (GFWL), then you’re probably familiar with some of its troubles. The difficulties some users had with fundamental things like logging in and updating the GFWL could produce some epic tales of woe. GFWL was deactivated last year, and with it went…
It’s GDC 2015! A lot of super cool things are happening this week, including the reveal of a new Project Morpheus prototype. Sid and Ryan trade notes on their experience with the latest PlayStation VR tech — and that’s not all. Sid speaks with Powers creator Brian Michael Bendis, and Ryan chats with one of…
A quick peek into the future In the land of video cards, Nvidia’s GTX Titan is generally considered the king. The original gangster came out in February 2013, followed by the Titan Black a year later, each sporting an unprecedented 6GB of RAM, 7 billion transisters, and more shader processors than you could shake a…